[ale] Ruby for sysadmins?

[Jerald Sheets]

Leam,

You’re no doubt aware of what I do.. <snicker>

In all this time, I’ve only ever used a single line of ruby.  It was a shell-escape to BASH to get the value I needed.

Everything else I’ve ever needed, I was able to get out of the DSL & associated tools.  In short, you don’t need Ruby at all to do Puppet, and all the job descriptions are running 2-3 years behind current versions of Puppet.  In fact, with the latest Facter, you can simply drop an executable shell script somewhere, and have it pushed through pluginsync and run in-module!!  Just like the old ruby facts in 

<module>/lib/facter

you can now have 

<module>/facts.d

and get the same result, and have it be in any language at all as long as your execution of the program returns foo=bar.  Now you have a new fact, and no Ruby was harmed in the extension of this Facter table.



Jerald Sheets RHCSA/RHCE
Sr. Puppet & Solutions Architect
jsheets at shadow-soft.com
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